The Global Donor Platform for Rural Development is a network of 38 bilateral and multilateral donors, international financing institutions, intergovernmental organisations and development agencies.
Members share a common vision that agriculture and rural development is central to poverty reduction, and a conviction that sustainable and efficient development requires a coordinated global approach.
Following years of relative decline in public investment in the sector, the Platform was created in 2003 to increase and improve the quality of development assistance in agriculture, rural development and food security.
// Agriculture is the key to poverty reduction
Agriculture, rural development, and food security provide the best opportunity for donors and partner country governments to leverage their efforts in the fight against poverty.
However, the potential of agriculture, rural development and food security to reduce poverty is poorly understood and underestimated.
Cutting-edge knowledge of these issues is often scattered among organisations, leading to competition, duplication of efforts, and delays in the uptake of best practices.
// Addressing aid effectiveness
Therefore the Platform promotes the principles of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, the Accra Agenda for Action for sustainable outcomes on the ground, and the Busan Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation.
Increasing aid to agriculture and rural development is not enough. Donors must work together to maximise development impact.
// Adding value
The Platform adds value to its members’ efforts by facilitating the exchange of their development know-how, which consolidates into a robust knowledge base for joint advocacy work.
Working with the Platform, members are searching for new ways to improve the impact of aid in agriculture and rural development.
- An increased share of official development assistance going towards rural development
- Measurable progress in the implementation of aid effectiveness principles
- Greater use of programme-based and sector-wide approaches
- More sustainable support to ARD by member agencies
// Vision
The Platform endorses and works towards the common objectives of its member institutions to support the reduction of poverty in developing countries and enhance sustainable economic growth in rural areas.
Its vision is to be a collective, recognised and influential voice, adding value to and reinforcing the goals of aid effectiveness in the agricultural and rural development strategies and actions of member organisations in support of partner countries.
// Evaluation
Between August and October 2014, the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development underwent an Evaluation. The evaluators interviewed across board focal points (FPs) of member organisations, partner institutions, staff of the secretariat and key agricultural and rural development experts from different organisations involved in the Platform initiatives. KIT reviewed Platform documentation of the past 10 years, online resources and services to complete the assessment.
According to the report, the change in overall global development objectives of the Post-2015 agenda and its sustainable development goals (SDG) will only reiterate the relevance of the Platform’s work in coordinating donor activities. Agriculture and rural development are incorporated in many of the SDGs. The targeted development of appropriate policies and innovative strategies will depend on increased, cross-sectoral cooperation which the Platform stands for. The achievement of the Platform’s objectives of advocacy, knowledge sharing and network facilitation functions remains to be a crucial contribution to agriculture and rural development.
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Resources
Displaying 341 - 345 of 809Ecosystem-based land use and preservation of biodiversity through forest protection and reforestation measures
General
Central Asia is a region that is facing increasing problems in ensuring water supplies for ecosystems, agriculture and the population. Because of the melting glaciers and changes in the runoff regime, a decline in seasonal water availability and thus irrigated land is expected, leading to massive economic impacts. The project is working on the reforestation and planting of wasteland as an adaptation strategy as well as the protection and management of natural forests and biodiversity. It is generating greater readiness for introducing and disseminating ecosystem-based land-use and land-protection strategies from the local to the national level.
Study and Expert Fund Special Initiative "ONE WORLD - No Hunger"
General
The fund shall primarily be used to prepare and examine new projects of the special initiative “Eine Welt ohne Hunger” ("One world - no hunger").
Grassroots Empowerment in Tanzania (GET) Programme
General
To contribute to the delivery of HMG’s ‘leave no-one behind agenda’ - tackling extreme poverty and helping the world’s most vulnerable. Grassroots Empowerment programme will deliver results on reducing FGM and early marriage, discrimination against people with albinism, securing land rights for women, and supporting disabled people. In order to achieve its purpose, Grassroots Empowerment will: empower communities to become key driving force for inclusive development at the local levels; ensure decision making at local levels better reflects the needs and aspirations of poor and marginalized groups; and it will give voice to the voiceless and tackle harmful traditional practices. It will facilitate local groups implement local solutions to solve common problems and increase their access to public goods.
Action for Access and Management Rights to Land and Natural Resources of Small Farmers in Northern Thailand
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Overall Objective: To contribute to the adoption of laws promoting equitable land distribution and natural resources management. Specific Objective: Increased capacity of small-scale farmers and their networks in northern Thailand to organize movements for and demand their rights to land and natural resources management. The action will support the strengthening of the civil society movement for land reform to be led by the Northern Land Reform Network (NLRN) and the People’s Movement for a Just Society (P-Move). They will engage stakeholders including the affected farmer communities, local administrative organizations (LAOs), independent public organizations, academics, the media and parliamentarians to be aware of the community rights to land and sustainable natural resources management, and call for policy implementation and relevant laws which will solve the land and natural resources access problem of small scale farmers in a comprehensive and sustainable manner. The permanent laws will also be necessary to mitigate the risk of the change of government as experienced currently.
National Programme to Support Agricultural Value Chain Actors (PNAAFA)
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The programme aims to improve the structure of federations, unions and other groupings of farmer organizations, to provide capacity building for members and extend financial assistance for the development of specific value chains. The programme gives particular attention to women and young people and will benefit 66,000 households in five of the seven prefectures of the region including those of forest: Beyla, Nzerekore, Macenta, Lola and Yomou, where there is a total 20 rural communities. On land and natural resource governance, the programme supports the prioritization of girls and boys (including academics) and head of household women in the distribution of irrigated land; the institutionalization and implementation of regulations promoting the empowerment of women and youth in decision-making bodies and the negotiation with landowners to facilitate access to land.